Now I believe I mentioned that at one time I was doing up to two and three podcasts episodes a day.  As a teenager I had a series of epileptic seizures, and was told that I should not swim - but after I started taking a new medication a...

Hello this is George Bartley. And no, I have not fallen off the face of the Earth.  In fact, my podcast Celebrate Creativity - with its current emphasis on William Shakespeare was in high gear - at one point I was doing two and even thr...

Up to now, Hamlet has lived inside questions.“Did my uncle really do it?”“Can I trust the Ghost?”“Am I being manipulated?”“Am I losing my mind—or pretending to?”Act 3 Scene 2 is the moment Hamlet says, in effect:“...

Master Shakespeare, are you ready?SHAKESPEARE:As ready as any man may be, entering a room where love is examined like evidence.GEORGE:That’s exactly it. Because what happens here is not romance. It’s a controlled expe...

GEORGE:So right away: the scene begins with the king and queen acting like concerned parents. But it feels… staged. SHAKESPEARE:Because it is staged.Mark their language: they crave a cause, a label, a tidy diagnosis ...